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VOL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY M‘DONNELL Gf HARRIS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, i3oS. TERMS OF THE GEORGIA EXPRESS. 1. IT will be printed weekly, at three dollars per annum ; one half to be paid in advance, the remainder at trie expiration of fix months. 2. Advertifements will be charg ed at the rate of fixty-two and a half cents per fquare for the firft infertion, and fifty cents for each continuation. 3. No papers will be difeontlnu ed without.a notice to that effcdtj nor then if in arrears. f^j 3 All letters diredled to the Editor; muft be pod paid. ting Gentlemen are autho rized to receive Subscriptions for this Taper :— Clarksboro'— Poll-Mailer. Jejferfon —Gen. B. Harris. Watkinfville —E. 33. Jenkins, <;fq. and M,!*. Edward Bond. Lexington —Foil Mailer, h Capt. Watkins. Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields, and William Lumpkins, Efq. Walnut Grove —Mr. L a e Atkins. Goofr-pond —Mr. H. T. Woody. Greenesboro ’ —Cant. T. Dawfon. Sparta —Dodier W. Terrell. War rent on — P 1: ft- M a fie r. Po welt on - Poll -Maft er. Mil ledge ville- —Thomas Mounger and James Bozeman, Efqrs. Liber ton —Col. Wm. Ch.fiom. Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. & Dodt. Watkins. Vienna —S. B. Shields, Efq. Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. Sc Dotfior Bibb. - Lincoln —■,Captain N. Allen, and Capt. John Hughes. Louijville ■ —Ale IT. Day tc Whee ler. Augufla — J. S. Walker, Efq. cz Defter Smelt. Waynesboro 3 -—Co\. John Davies. Sanderfville —Mr. Wm. M‘Mur ray. Savannah —Mr. H. LT. Moun ger, and Mr. A. W. Scribner. SPORT I N G. THERE is now a Subfcripfion v open for a Produce Sweep Stake In Oglethorpe County, on the Bowl ling Green Turf, free for any Cole foaled in this State in eighteen hun dred and eight, running the fall af ter they are three years old, two mile heats with a ketch of 80 lbs on each j entrance two bales of clean merchantable cotron, weighing three hundred pounds each ; half forfeit. The Subscription will be kept open till the twenty-fifth of L)e cember next, and no admittance af ter that time. Perfons wifhing to enter may do fo by applying to this Office. A Jockey Club Is about to be efiablifiied on the fame ground, to commence this fall and continue five years. Augufl 13, 1808. CASH Will be* given for clean Cotton and Linen RAGS, at this office. G‘E GRG I A EXPRESS. MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED. NOTICE. Prop of As in writing will be recPced until the frji of March next , for BUIiryNG A JAIL IN GREENS BOROUGH, UPON THE FOLLOWING FLAN, VIZ. TO be built of Boric, Lid in lime mortar, 44 feet in lengrh and 22in breadth—Two rooms b i >w for the jailor and a guard when nec fTir one 16 feet fquare, the other 14 in length and 16 in breadth v . a pafTuge between 4 Let wide—A’ ‘■ two rooms above c l the wm thofe b, low, the large one f r a debtors apartment, the filial! u< e. for a criminals a'airmen’, wita a fight of fie is and landing place in the pafiage ‘ between.— he walls furrounding the crim nals apart ment to be three feet thi k— brie furrounding die debtors apartm ,-.t to be three feet thick a; die fees and two feet thdek a: the ends. The checks of the doors and windows above to hr f • -.red by iron bars on each fide the wall, ri vetted together through • . wail— The upper fi ors to have their fl epers laid dole tog?-tier, a 1 in the criminals rorrn the fleepe- ‘O have iron bars let Into mem cr T wife fix inches apart, wtli fecurcd by bolts ar.d then covered wuh two inch plank.—Both the debtors •vi criminals room t be fi cured over head by ftrong fhepers laid enure]*; clofi and w. 11 fafiered down—The grates to be of iron bars in h fipiarr, and as many letts in a window as vvill entirely break the lights. The doors above to be fi cored by iron bars fl apped ir.fi ie and out fide and fecured by rivets going through. The materials to be all furnifhed by the undertaker. PEi er Early. J AMES CUNNI NGH AM, THOMAS W. GRIMES, Commifftcners P. S. The prop-’ lab. mi l be dire died to Mr. Thomas W. G ones In Greenefborci gh, Green County, Georgia. November 16, 1808. SHERIFF’S SALE. On the Firft Turfday in January next , at the Court - lioufe in Jackfni ■ County j between the ufual hours , will be fold the following property, to wit : One traft cf land containing fe ven thoufand three hundred acre r , bounded by Coliier, Cobbs and others ; alfo another tract contain ing feven thoufand one hundred and fixty acres, bounded by Fifhbourn, Evens, Cobbs, Williams & others, granted to Bafii Jones and to fatesfy two executions, one in favor of Ig. nations Few, the other ia favor of George Henning. Conditions Cafh. WM. POTTS, Sheriff. December 1, iBo3. ALMANACS FOR THE TEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINE , FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE. SHERIFF’S SALE. WILL BE SOL D, At the court houfein Clark county , on the frji Tufday in January next, between the hours cf ten and throe , the fillozvieg property , viz. One brown rr. c fix years old, foutteen ha..’s ‘V n, levied on in the p filfiion cd John Patton as the propiTtv of J *h:i Greenwood, to latiify execution in favor of Tames H. Kick). ALSO, On hundred and feventy five a:* ‘ cf land, Ivinm and being in the • of Clark on the Oconee ri ’ ’ > no r Barnett and others, ori granted to John Gorum, cm “fi . g the plantation whereon Cha-Ts Garner now lives, and levi ed on as the prope: y of Edmund Hen-Iky, ad rr, hi ft rate r, and Janet Hendly, admi dftratrix, of John Gorum, decealed, tofatisfy an exe cution in favor of Thomas Carter. Conditions O.ih. JOHN WADDEL, D. S. November 28, 180S. COLLECTOR’S SALE. WILL BE SdLD, At Lexington , in the county of Ogle thorpe, on the fecond Saturday in January next, between the ujual lows: • HP L. WO thoufand pounds of mcr i.!:.to Colt fied Cotton, levied on as the property cf Wingfield Haamer, to iau'fy find tiamner’s tax, and the tax of Pleafant Walker, de ccaled, for the year 1807, and po’iued cut by Laid Hammer—tax cue, id d* liars, 59 1 2 cents. Conditions Cafh. JACK LUMPKIN, Colltftor. December 6, i3oB. LO S T ON the road leading from A thens ro the Seven-Iflands, between Cape. Fidlers and Murder creek, a red Morocco Pocket book.—~— The lubfcriber’s Indentures are in the book, together with feveral o ther paj. ers—he hopes no perfon will trade for any of the papers in it. Should a -,y ptrfon find it, they will be handfomclv rewarded by leaving it with Mr. E. Bond in Watkini ville, or the fubferibar In Athens. NORRIS HENDON. December 16. NOTICE. ON the feventh day of January next will be fold to the higheft bid der at the houfe of the lubferiber in Jackfon county, all the perfonal eftate of Vcluntine Hollenfworth, deceafed, confifting of horfes, cattF, hngs, a quantity of corn, plantation tools, household furniture, icc. — Terms will be made known on the clay of i3ie. WM. WAITS, Adrn’r. Nov. 12, 1808. BLANK DEEDS For lale at this dace. SADDLE & HARNESS MA KE!^. r v rTpi jj[ HE fubferibar refpeßfully in forms thr public, that he intends c rr Egon, the Saddling bufir.efs it) ih ■ town of Athens, w here he has f>r f.dt, L.adies’ and G ntlemeo’s SaJdLs, Saddle-Bags, V di .vs, pla ted and c m;ivon B idles, &c. All kinds of Waggon-Gtars made and told at his Ibop j he makes C .ach and Chair Harnefs of ail kinds, LJght-horfi menNCap', Ac. Any kind of Needle work cam be done in the fubfinbrr’s ianfily. Thole who choofi to faver him in either of the above brunches, rmy depend on being gencroufty dealt with. —Fork, Corn, Cottv n, Fodder, and any other produce ufu allv uled in a family, will be takea in payment, but he would give pre ference to C ’ th. RICHARD WILSON. December 15, i3oH. F )R SAI E, A ffood trail of land contaicir^ 20 > 1 2 acre s. b. : ng in old VVilk n fidn, \viu.in Haifa mile of the Lo. s[ Bluff, on the Oconee river, rum ber 321. The term§ tnay be e fullv k< own by apply); g n Obed Baker in Clark county near Athens. Dec. 8, 18- 3. THE N TED IMPORT D HdRSS SIR WALTER, V ILL fiand th° enfuing fea fon at my ftable in CL;ke county, and will come recommended as at foul getter by gentle iru n of the firll: veracity. Terms will be made known in due time—rhe belt, ac commodations wll be kept Lr marts that may be left with the horfi. CHARLES A* REDD, NOTICE. TV TINE months after date appli cation will be made to the Inferior Court of Jat kfon County, for leave to fi ll three m;£ls of land, viz :—tv/o trafls lying on the North Fork of the Oconee, one cr which contains 200 acres, the other 192, one 1 t lying in th' j 14th dif tri<fl cf Baldwin No. 64 —to be fold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors rf Micl.ael Bord-rs, dec. MARY BORDERS, Executrix . JOHN BORDERS, Ex.,uter. July 9, 1808. N O T I C E. jW INF. months afrer date applD cation v/i!l be made to the honorable Inferior Court of rhe county of Ciark, for leave ro fell a tract of land in laid county, on the waters of Cedar cretk, containing five hundred acres, m.'-ro or Lis, Let g thr real that” William Pur year, deceafid, and wnercon fubfcri berw lives*—the lame fer the oe f of the htlrs and ertotors Gi fat’d deceafed. CHARLES DOUGH ARTY* 4iCiii% f, October 20, 1808. ( No - 33-